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F R iG H T F O R BILLY MOUSE
TDILLY MOUSE was inquisitive,
there was no doubt about it. As
soon as his father or mother came
home after hunting in the pantry,
Billy Mouse began to poke about to
see what they had brought home for
breakfast.
Then when he was taken out in the
pantry for a run when his parents
knew that Puss was not in the house,
Billy Mouse always ran to the highest
s.hejf and peeked into all the boxes.
And once he crawled up behind some
drawers and was caught fast until
Someone opened one and then he ran
across the floor and ..Puss almost
caught him.
One night when his father and
mother had planned to explore the
"How Did You Get Out Alive?" Mrs.
Mouse Asked.
clinhag room to find birdseed for break-
fast», Billy Mouse jumped out of his
warm bed and ran out in the pantry
all alone. ‘Tf I don’t begin to go
• about myself I shall never grow up,”
saidi he. “ Mother and father think I
uni a baby, but I shall show them I am
able to' take care of myself.”
First, Billy Mouse found a meat pie
which he nibbled at until he could eat
no more. And then he should have
run home. But not inquisitive Billy.
He saw. boxes and drawers to explore,
so to the highest shelf he made his
way and nibbled off the paper that was
around a box. to find what was inside.
In the box was some wire that had
been put in so tightly that when Billy
Mouse made a hole in the box the end
o f the wirb popped out and hit Billy
on the tip of his nose, and sent him
tumbling over backward off the shelf.
It wag a good thing for Billy Mouse
that the trap had been sprung or this
What’s in a Name?'
By MILDRED MARSHALL
Facts about your name; its history;
meaning; whence it was derived; sig
nificance; your lucky day, lucky jewel
would be the end of the story. But It
had, so when Billy ran in head first
he did not know that his tail and
body were outside. He thought he
was all hidden in the box.
By and by back came his father
and mother from their hunting trip to
the dining room, and there they saw
Billy caught, as they thought, in the
trap.
“Oh, my poor foolish child,” squeaked
Mrs. Mouse. "He is caught in a trap,
and I had such a nice breakfast of
birdseed for him, and now he will
never eat anything again.”
Mr. Mouse led his weeping little
wife away, and then Billy, who had
kept very still all the time, backed
out of the trap, for he did not know
he was in a trap, you see, until he
heard his mother crying.
"I guess father and mother do not
know how to get oflt of a trap,” said
Billy Mouse. "You just run in and
run out. That is all there Is to it.”
But just then another silly little
mouse ran into another trap and there
he was fast. Billy Mouse heard one
squeak and a (flick and off he ran for
home.
Mrs. Mouse tumbled over In a faint
when she saw her son. "How did you
get out aliveT1 she asked when they
had sprinkled her with water.
"Oh, I just backed out; that is all
you have to d.o with some traps. I
guess,” said Billy, thinking of the
poor little mouse that was caught in
the other trap.
"you foolish boy,” said his father.
"Don’t ¡you know that trap had been
sprung or youicouldn’t have got out?”
“But it is full of cheese, father.”
said Billy; . “ only I could not reach
all of it.”
Out ran Mr. and Mrs. Mouse, and
soon they came back with the cheese,
and such a breakfast they had of
birdseed and cheese. And while they
were eating Billy Mouse said. "1 guess
I am big enough to hunt by myself
now that I have found all of this
cheese.”
Wise Father Mouse always shook his
head when Mrs. Mouse said that Billy
knew which traps were safe to.look
into. f*I never could make out how
he found out that trap was safe., I
wonder if ‘something happened to
drive him in there.”
But Billy Mouse never told what
happened on the top shelf. He kept
to himself how he was cured of being
inquisitive.
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I Superstitions §
Brief Resume of Happening« o
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
Testing *of Klamath dairy and breed
ing cattle for tuberculosis will be re
aewed this week.
The tenth annual meeting of th*
Oregon State Drainage associatioi
will be held in Eugene Thursday.
A shipment of 48 Chinese pheasants
furnished by the state game farm nedi|
Eugene, was released near Pilot Rock
Field work involved in the survey
of a pipe line for Bend’s proposed nevj
city water system has been completj
ed.
The first carload »of head lettuce
ever, shipped from Umatilla countj
was sent from Freewater to Nev]
York.
Reports issued by the Port of As
toria show that 20,498 tons of freigli
were loaded« at the terminals during
the past month.
The third annual exhibition of potij
try and waterfowl of the Hubbata
Poultry association will be held h\
Hubbard this week.
Friday and Saturday, December li
and 20, are dates set for the annua|
Hood River county poultry show to
be held at Hood River.
tary of the boarvi of control, w aj ap
pointed by Governor Pierce to succeed
Miss Bollman.
JUST ONE PURPOSE
To supply the Men ana Young Men of the Willamette Valley with
the best o f Clothes and Furnishings at Reasonable Prices.
In accordance with a legal opinion
CLOTHING & WOOLEN
banded down by the attorney-general,
MILLS STORE
the state tax commission has announc
136 N. Commercial Street
Salem, Oregon
ed that the collection of the state
income tax for 1924, based on incomes
for 1923, would proceed as if the law
had not been repealed at the genera1, S A L E A N D W A N T A D S . Pacific Slope Dairy Show-Oakland, Calif.,
election last month.
Earl Fisher
Dec. 10-16
state tax commissiener/ostimates ilia1
For Sale: Eight weeks old pigs.
the unpaid portion of the tax will ex Fred Dentei, Rt. 3. Aurora, Ore 49-2p
ceed $1,000,000.
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Receipts from motor vehicle licensee,
NOTICE: The sale season is at hand j
during the period January l*to Noverh- and I am prepared to handle all kinds!
ber 30, 1924, aggregated $4,753,915, or o f sales to your satisfaction. When
an increase of $684,305.00 over those ready, call Will Heinz, Auctioneer,
for the entire yéar of 1923, accord Aurora Route 1, or Canby 13-16. 34tf \
ing to a report prepared by Sam A
Kozer, secretary of state. The regís
D A N G E R — L u r k s in a ll w i r e s ;
trations for the 11 months included
191,450 passenger and commercial ve Y o u n e v e r c a n t e l l w h e n t h e y [
hides, 2756 motorcycles, 600 dealers a r e h o t , t e l e p h o n e o r E le c t -1
14,566 chauffeurs and 47,155 operators. r i c .
W a r n y o u r c h ild r e n .
An unsolved mystery exists in En
M o la lla E le c t r ic C o .
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terprise in the death of Samuel G. I
Hickman, who was shot and killed
We have plenty of money to loan on
nearly a week ago. Cleve Melson was
farms at 6 per cent. No commission.
slightly injured when Hickman was
Reliable Abstracts. Oregon City Ab
wounded fatally. The two men and
B enefit b y lo w w eek-en d
stract Company.
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two boys were at a. cabin on Rail
fares n ow in effect, o n sale
creek and the men were preparing a
Friday,
Saturday and Sun
Dr.
Osmar
K.
Wolf,
Woodburn,
Ore.
meal. A shotgun was discharged in
day—return lim it follow
an adjoining room, the shot piercing is fully equipped to fit your eyes with
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a partition and lodging mostly in Hick proper glasses.
ing Tuesday.
man’s abdomen, although some scat
Registered Holstein bull calf for sale
O r 15-day fa r e s * o n sale
tering pellets struck Melson. Who
cheap; from a high producing cow.
fired the shot has not been learned.
any day—return lim it 15
John R. Kraus. Aurora, Ore.
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BISHOP’S
going away
to Portland
and return
Why They “ Joined Up”
for Better or Worse
W ANTED: A position as practical
nurse. Inquire at Observer office. 47-2p
Little did I think what an interesting
task I had set myself when I set out to
inquire why some wives and husbands
had married.
Let us get over the unpleasant part
first. I asked a young wife why she
had married, since she apparently took
little interest in her husband and
home.
"Oh, I wanted to be free. Mother
Oscar L. Daniels, 57, of Mulino, wasl
killed in the Hult Lumber company’s wouldn’t let me have a latchkey, and
if I was ten minutes late coming home
yard at Mulino when he fell from th',
at night there was as much fuss as if
top of a lumber pile eight feet to th
the house had caught fire. So I es
ground.
caped with the first ‘boy’ who asked
Oregon postmasters were nominated me. He’s not much of a catch, either.”
Incidentally, that woman finds It Is
by the president as follows: Alsea,
impossible to do exactly what one
Charles O. Hendered; Bay City,
likes even when married. Her hus
George C. Peterson; Grande Ronde, band "watches the clock” when she’s
Edith Glover; Lakeside, Charles W. 1 out, tool
St. Dennis; Lexington, Emma M, CL | Next a man told me he married his
Brasshars; Oakridge, Sadie B. Jones; | wife because he was sorry for her. She
Taft, Frederick C. Robinson; West I was unhappy at home and he couldn't
Linn, Mary F. Schultz; Estacada, Ah | bear to see her cry. Now he sees what
bert N. Johnson; Seaside, Erie Ni i a fool he’s been, and from what I
gather It Is he who makes her cry now-
Hurd.
! adays. It’s to be hoped that no other
At a special meeting of the board i man will come along and pity her.
of control at Salem Carle Abrams was
| "Why did I marry?” echoed another
elected to succeed W. A. Delzell a? ( man. "Why, because she is the sweet-
secretary of that board. The selec j est, best and dearest little girl in the
tion of Mr. Abrams followed the resig \ world, and I just couldn’t have lived
nation of Miss Celia Bollman, since without her.” Pleasant hearing words
May 1 private secretary to Governor like that, isn't it?—Vera Leslie, in
Edinburgh Scotsman.
Pierce.
' '^ell. retr*’ /Jr ' -
The Jordan Valley irrigation project
will fee completed by June 1, according
to Harry Morrison of the firm of Mori
rison & Knudsen, contractors.
The old Aune barn at Bend, erecteJ
when that city could be reached onl#
by stage, is being torn down to be re-f
placed with a business structure.
Fcr Sale: O. I. C. weaned pigs. Wm
Jeskey.
49-2tp
Any girl in trouble may communicate
with Ensign Lee of the Salvation Ar
my at the White Shield Home, 565
Mayfair Ave.. Portland, Ore. 37-52t;
For Sale: Nice big apples, free from
worms, 65c and 75c per box.
Call
Herman Kuhnke, Needy Phone. 1 mile
east of Needy.
50-ltp
Sunday school, 10 a an.
Evening services, ¡7:30 p. m.
“ I am only one, but I am ope; I can
not do everything, but I can do some
thing. What I ought to do, I should
do, and by the grace of God I will do.”
Until after the Christmas vacation
there will be no meeting o f the
Christian Endeavor.
“ Putting God to Bed” will prove an
unusual and interesting subject next
Sunday evening.
Everyone cordially invited to attend.
J. F. M athews .
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THE GRAY PINE
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iB p N T
the gray pine grows
W HEREVER
it is called "the unlucky tree,”
because It is supposed to bring bad
luck to anyone who stands nnder it—
especially to women.
This superstition is, apparently, a
survival of the worship of the Phry
gian god Attis, a worship introduced
hito Europe through the Greeks. Attis
has been identified with the Greek god
Adonis and by some, also, with the
Egyptian Osiris. At any rate the At
tis cult was a most ancient one and
profoundly influenced European my
thology. Attis was supposed to have
met his death under a pine tree into
which his spirit entered. At the festi
val of Attis, celebrated in the spring,
a pine tree, the trunk of which was
wrapped in wool, was brought into
the sanctuary of Cybele and a young
man tied to the tree trunk. Then the
priests and the votaries gashed them
selves until their blood covered the
bound man. He was then * unbound
and the pine tree taken out and
burned. Originally the bound man
was sacrificed to represent the death
of the god, but later it was sufficient
that he was covered with blood. This
will explain why it Is "unlucky” to
stand under the tree—the persqn so
standing takes the place o f the victim
of the old ritual.
That the tree is especially unlucky
for women is * explained by the fact
that the ancient rite took place In the
temple of Cybele—the mother of the
god who was slain in this incarnate
form—and also by certain orgiastic
practices which characterized the sac
rifice. That the superstition in ques
tion should linger about the gray pine
and not other pines may be accounted
for by suggestiveness of its color—the
colon of ashes to which the > sacred
pine of Attis was ultimately reduced—
or possibly the color of the natural
wool with which the trunk of thè sa
cred pine was covered at the Phrygian
festival. Also as the sacred pine of
Attis was always burned so the prin
cipal use of the gray pine is for fire
wood.
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THOSE DEAR
GIRLS.
Miss Old: I*d
just like to see
any man kiss me.
Miss Y o u n g :
What a hopeless
ambition.
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r p H E queen of Heaven, Maria, has
A votaries called by the Italians Re
gina or Reina. Reina was found more
frequently in Florence. In France,
Regina became Reine and Reinette, the
former also being a favorite in Ger
many. All, of course, are translated
to mean queen.
The natural conclusion would be
that the name Regina is merely the
Latin word for queen given a capital
ized initial letter, but another explana
tion of its origin, and one most gen
erally accepted, is that -it is one of the
many evolved from the Latin rego.
meaning rule. If such is the case it
has a history as full of adventure as
an Arabian Nights and is indeed an
heroic name for a woman to bear.
The first Rganar was that hardy soul
who, after ravaging France, was put to
death in England, whereupon his fierce
sons in revenge swept England with
merciless devastation. His name there
fore became a dread one and in some
manner was changed to Rene. At
once Renee became popular as a femi
nine name since the younger daughter
of Louis XH of France bore it. When
she married into the IJouse of Este,
her name was changed into Renata,, a
form which is very pleasing to the
Spanish and Italian. The old Dutch
form, Renira, is quaint and quite
pretty. The Teutonic influence makes
itself evident in Reigl and Regl.
The aquamarine is Regina’s jewel.
Much superstition centers about this
stone and it has therapeutic value,
since by its paling color, it gives evi
dence of the bodily weakening of its
wearer. It is even held that its color
will stain the flesh against which ft is
worn as indication of some physical
derangement. Thursday is Regina’s
fortunate day and 7 her lucky number.
The violet is her flower.
M a k e a lly o u rg o in g a w a y
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